How long does it take to read The Double?
The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky takes about 3 hours 7 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 7 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1846. 170 pages, about 46,750 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 12 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 7 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 184 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
reprint
Subjects: Fiction, Doppelgängers, Russian fiction
